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Verbit

1. (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
2. (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
3. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
4. (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
5. (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
6. (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
7. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
8. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
9. To move swiftly.
10. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
11. To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
12. (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

Adjektiivit

1. (cricket) Describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.

Substantiivit

1. Circular motion.
2. (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
3. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
4. (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
5. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.
6. A brief trip by vehicle.
7. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.